common iguana

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• common iguana — noun large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America • Syn: ↑iguana, ↑Iguana iguana • Hypernyms: ↑iguanid, ↑iguanid lizard • Member Holonyms: ↑genus …   Useful english dictionary

• Iguana — I*gua na, n. [Sp. iguana, from the native name in Haiti. Cf. {Guana}.] (Zo[ o]l.) Any species of the genus {Iguana}, a genus of large American lizards of the family {Iguanid[ae]}. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color, and… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Iguana cornuta — Iguana I*gua na, n. [Sp. iguana, from the native name in Haiti. Cf. {Guana}.] (Zo[ o]l.) Any species of the genus {Iguana}, a genus of large American lizards of the family {Iguanid[ae]}. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Iguana tuberculata — Iguana I*gua na, n. [Sp. iguana, from the native name in Haiti. Cf. {Guana}.] (Zo[ o]l.) Any species of the genus {Iguana}, a genus of large American lizards of the family {Iguanid[ae]}. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• iguana — /i gwah neuh/, n. 1. a large, arboreal lizard, Iguana iguana, native to Central and South America, having stout legs and a crest of spines from neck to tail. 2. any of various related lizards of the genera Iguana, Ctenosaura, Conolophus, and… …   Universalium

• Iguana iguana — Iguanidae Iguanidae n. A natural family of New World lizards including the common Iguana, {Iguana iguana}. Syn: family {Iguanidae}. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Iguana iguana — noun large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America • Syn: ↑common iguana, ↑iguana • Hypernyms: ↑iguanid, ↑iguanid lizard • Member Holonyms: ↑genus …   Useful english dictionary

• Iguana meat — Iguana until recently has been an important meat in the culinary traditions of the Mexican states of Jalisco, Michoacán and Colima. There has been a marked preference for the Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) over the Black Iguana (Ctenosaura… …   Wikipedia

• Common collared lizard — A common collared lizard in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

• Common Collared Lizard — Taxobox name = Common Collared Lizard image caption = Collared Lizard in Albuquerque, New Mexico regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Reptilia ordo = Squamata subordo = Iguania familia = Crotaphytidae genus = Crotaphytus species = C.… …   Wikipedia

• Green Iguana — Green Iguana[1] Green iguana at the Santa Fe Zoo in Medellín, Colombia Scientific classification …   Wikipedia